Can't access Trains website at all since yesterday - is it just me?

I’ve been trying since yesterday morning (8/4/25) to get onto the Trains website. I have a bookmark, and it’s not working beyond an error message. Typing the site address into Google or the address bar also does nothing but return the same error message from the site: “Error establishing a database connection”. I’ve tried everything, and nothing works… for what it’s worth, I’m on a Windows 11 running Chrome, and both are up to date.
Anybody else having this issue, or is it just me?

EDIT: It’s working again as of 6:30PM, 8/5/25

I’ve had no trouble. I tried again just now and it came right up. Are you on a phone or a computer?

He’s on a computer running Win 11, using Google Chrome as the browser

I have been on the Trains site several times today, both from Windows 11/ Chrome and an iPad/ Safari. No issues

It’s working again as of 6:30PM, 8/5/25

I’m using Win.10, Microsoft Edge.
I keep getting, “Error establishing a database connection”, on a plain page.
Not even telling me if my Login credentials are wrong.

Browsing for, ‘trains.com login’ - same thing.
I cannot sign myself back in.
Action: contact Trains.com

If you have a different browser, try using that one. Does Edge use Ctrl-F5 to flush the cache? I don’t know what the cookie structure for Firecrown is now but if you can view cookies separately you might figure it out easily without having to nuke all your passwords and history.

Hi, I contacted Nick at Fire Crown, who suggested I Log-in using an Edge incognito window.
If this works, which it did, Nick recommended to delete my Browsing History and Log-in to Trains.com again - which worked as normal.
Now I just have to Log back in to all my other sites as well, but that is no trouble.
Cheers, regards, Paul.

I had the same problem with the main Trains.com website bu not the forums. Deleting the cookies for Trains.com did the trick for me, but did have to login again to both the main site and the forums.

I used to have some issues crop up every-so-often, but since I’ve starting cleaning everything once a week, I haven’t had issues at all.

Yes, I do have to log in again, but it only takes a couple of minutes to log into every site I use.

If you’re using Windows, in the settings there is a “disk cleanup” option, which clears everything out. It works great to clear up issues.